Giovanni de Martino

Giovanni De Martino (January 13, 1870, Naples–March 3, 1935, Naples) was an Italian sculptor active in Paris. During the 1931 Quadrennial Exhibition in Rome, Benito Mussolini identified Giovanni de Martino as the most important sculptor representing Italian art.

In 1900, he won a prize at the Salon de Paris at Louvre Museum for a bronze of a fisherman.

 Museums 
 Louvre Museum, Paris
 Civic Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Castello di Masnago, Varese
 Michelangelo Buonarroti's Birthplace Museum, Caprese Michelangelo, Arezzo
  Gallery of the Academy of Naples, ("Bimba pensosa")
 Museum of the "Federico Zeri Foundation", University of Bologna
 Civic Museum of Varese (inv. 278)
 M.a.x.museo, Municipality of Chiasso Collection, Switzerland
 Fortunato Calleri Museum of Catania

 Art market 
At a New York Sotheby's auction in 2008, Giovanni De Martino's Fishermen (1930), a bronze sculpture, sold for US $7,500 plus auction fees. Sotheby's (21 October 2008) "Property of the estate of Richelle Sepenuk "Lot 130. Sotheby's. Retrieved June 7, 2022.

 Related pages 
 The Lobster Fisherman (De Martino)

References

Bibliography 
 Enrico Giannelli, Artisti napoletani viventi, 1916
 A. Panzetta, Dizionario della Scultura dell’Ottocento e Primo Novecento 
 Dizionario E.Benezit
 Dizionario dell’Arte e artisti dell’Ottocento della Scuola Napoletana e di Posillipo D.Maggiore (1955)
 Dizionario degli scultori italiani dal Neoclassicismo al Liberty V.Vicario (1994)
 Arte a Napoli dal 1920 al 1945 gli anni difficili M.Picone Petrusa Electa (2000)

Category:1870 births
Category:1935 deaths
Category:Artists from Naples
Category:Italian sculptors